Scott, Having scheduled times for the backup would be great. You can also make copies while the file system is running; you are just not guaranteed that all the files will be accessible after a restore. Depending on your use case, the hot backup may or may not be a desirable thing.
-- Elaine -----Original Message----- From: Scott Roberts [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 9:24 AM To: Elaine Quarles Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pvfs2-users] How do I back up the metadata? Thanks, Elaine. I suppose I'll need to schedule periodic maintenance with the end users so I can take the filesystem offline for backups. At least, until the next version of OrangeFS comes out :-) Happy New Years, --Scott On 12/27/12 2:22 PM, "Elaine Quarles" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >Hi Scott, > >In order to back up the metadata you need to copy the Berkeley db files. >You can just zip the directory where they reside. Note that it is best >to have the file system quiesced during the copy. > >-- Elaine > >On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Scott Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > >Good morning all, > >I'd like to know how to safely back up my metadata. I've looked >through the pvfs2-users archive and while I can find numerous folks >mentioning it's a good thing to do, I don't see a set of instructions >on how to actually do it. I suppose this might be a topic in the >upcoming OrangeFS Administrator Manual? > >Thanks in advance, and Happy Holidays! > >--Scott > > >_______________________________________________ >Pvfs2-users mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users > > > > _______________________________________________ Pvfs2-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.beowulf-underground.org/mailman/listinfo/pvfs2-users
